Hello, my name's Justin the Clue, and I'm here today with Will Sloan.

And you are listening to The Important Cinema Club.

And today, we're going to get a little bit critical.

Oh, yeah.

And we're going to be talking about the second most popular film critic of all time.

The Angry Video Game Nerd.

Yeah.

And number one is obviously the nostalgic critic. Now we're talking about Pauline Kale. And Will, you pick this topic.

Why do you think Pauline Kale is still important in the world today? Well, I mean, she's

probably the most influential non-Rogger Ebert film critic there's ever been.

Oh, you just spoiled who the number one was.

Richard Roper.

But what do you think about Pauline Kale?

Pauline Kale is when you get into film, it's impossible not to run into her.

Like people will talk about her famous review for Last Tango, her famous review for Bonnie and Clyde.

I actually went out only a few years ago and bought like

seven of her books at a Hollywood bookstore or whatever. Remember Hollywood Canteen when it was

closing down? And I started reading them like, yeah, you know, she's passionate. And while I was

reading it, the things that I really liked about her was very informal style of writing that got criticized a lot.

She's very passionate about a lot of stuff. And you know what? She's a smart critic. Like a lot of the time she knows what she's talking about.

Yeah, there are very few critics who I think have actually had a big influence on the art form that they're criticizing.

Roger Rebert might be one, but Pauline K.L. was somebody who kind of in the early 70s,

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